OH010 - ZCash light clients

Episode Notes In this episode our guest Pacu talks about the state of light clients in zcash, defi firehoses, and putting ancient zcashd to rest in favour of more modular architecture written in Rust. Although we didn't have time to discuss how the magical cryptography happens in light clients, we did have a chance to gently touch the surface of ... attack surface topic & found out where to discuss this kind of stuff in more depth. Links: Pacu Twitter: Github: Zcash R&D Discord (not the same as Zcash main discord) (obtained Nov25) on If the link expired ask on forum again Lightwalletd Light protocol Shoutout & thanks to Recording Station & ZK AV Club people for recording equipment & other visible & invisible infrastructure at Devconnect. Also to Ligi for the tape & other various awesomeness

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OH010 - ZCash light clients is an episode from Oktahedron by Dirk Jäckel.

This episode is 1:04:42 long.

This episode was published on Nov 22, 2025.

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